Answers : B,C

AWS OpsWorks : OpsWorks lets you use Chef and Puppet to automate how servers are configured, deployed, and managed across your Amazon EC2 instances or on-premises compute environments.

AWS CodeDeploy : AWS CodeDeploy is a fully managed deployment service that automates software deployments to a variety of compute services such as Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, and your on-premises servers.

https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/

https://aws.amazon.com/codedeploy/

Key words: "Pricing model that Adjust".

The Spot prices are more predictable, updated less frequently,

and are determined by 'supply and demand' for Amazon EC2 spare capacity,

not bid prices.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/new-amazon-ec2-spot-pricing/

Rearchitecting applications involves sweeping change

where an old monolithic application is completely revamped

according to modern microservices architecture.

Using individual components to re-architect a big application is one part of the process.

The most important part is to design the application for scalability

because the level of investment for a monolithic application can only be justified when resilience and scalability is needed.

Reference:

https://www.architech.ca/re-architect-applications/

Reference:

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/

WS Artifact is your go-to, central resource for compliance-related information

that matters to you.

It provides on-demand access to AWS's security

and compliance reports and select online agreements.

The AWS SOC 2 report is particularly helpful for completing questionnaires

because it provides a comprehensive description of the implementation and operating effectiveness of AWS security controls.

Another useful document is the Executive Briefing within the AWS FedRAMP Partner Package.

Reference:

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/faq/

Personal Health Dashboard gives you a personalized view of the status of the AWS services

that power your applications, enabling you to quickly see

when AWS is experiencing issues that may impact you.

For example, in the event of a lost EBS volume associated with one of your EC2 instances,

you would gain quick visibility into the status of the specific service you are using,

helping save precious time troubleshooting to determine root cause.

Reference:

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/personal-health-dashboard/

If you have multiple standalone accounts,

your charges might decrease if you add the accounts to an organization.

AWS combines usage from all accounts in the organization to qualify you for volume pricing discounts.

Reference:

https://help.nops.io/consolidated-billing

1.Imagine if you work for Professional Services team, you basically get to architect prototypes and solutions tailored to the requirements of customers. And hence, AWS core services is a must and other services a good-to-have.

2.Enterprise Support offers enhanced technical support: 24x7 access to Cloud Support Engineers via phone, chat, and email

3.AWS Account Management helps you manage the account information and metadata for all of the AWS accounts in your organization => NOT related to cloud adoption

And according to:

https://aws.amazon.com/professional-services/

"... Professional services deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices ... "

=> C is correct.

DIFFERENCE between a consultant partner and a technology partner of AWS ?

1.A consulting partner mainly refers to an organization that is focused on assisting customers with advice, professional services and integration activities as they move to the AWS platform.

2.A technology partner refers to a company that is developing their own product/service that they will deploy on top of AWS and sell to their customers (e.g. Xero Accounting software).

Technology partners range from large well known brands such as Microsoft again through to relatively niche ISV’s who have built their product on AWS.

=> C is correct.

How to Design for Failure with AWS:

1.Use Fault-tolerant Services as Ingredients of your App

2.Use Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots

3.Auto-scaling for Auto-Recovery

4.Multi-AZ Data Replication and Recovery

5.On-demand application provisioning in a different AZ

6.Multi-AZ Application Deployment and Data replication -> C is correct.